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| A ROMANIAN COMMISSIONER FOR THE EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE 30/11/09 |
| (2009-11-30) |
| Last updated: 2009-12-02 15:15 EET |
Dacian Ciolos was born in 1969 in Zalau, in western Romania. In 1994 he graduated from the Horticulture Department of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Cluj. He took his Doctor’s Degree in The Economy of Farming, Food and Rural Development, at the Higher National School of Agronomy in Montpellier.
Between 2007 and 2008 he was a politically independent minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Government headed by the Liberal Calin Popescu Tariceanu. He is currently heading a presidential committee entrusted with drawing up a strategy in the farming sector. The appointment of Dacian Ciolos as European Commissioner for Agriculture was hailed by Romanian officials and politicians, irrespective of their political colour and especially by farmers, who hope that the new commissioner will grant them more support.
The incumbent head of state, Traian Basescu, defined Ciolos’s nomination as a success of the Romanian diplomacy and a proof of the fact that a Romanian candidate for this post is worthy of heading such an important sector. The French press gives extensive coverage to Ciolos’s appointment and says that Paris will have two European commissioners, Michel Barnier and Dacian Ciolos respectively, because the latter, though a Romanian, is a friend of France. Ciolos has a strong bond with France, because he studied in that country and his wife is French. Nevertheless, another part of the Western media is much less enthusiastic about the appointment of Dacian Ciolos.
If endorsed by the European Parliament, Ciolos will have a difficult task, because he will have to harmonise the divergent opinions among the EU as regards the Common Agricultural Policy. Mediterranean countries like France, Spain and Italy, as well as the younger EU member states, say this sector should be heavily financed. On the other hand, Scandinavian countries, the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, which have a highly developed agriculture, favour a decrease in the funds earmarked for this sector.
The Germans and the British are the least satisfied with Romania having got the Agriculture seat, a sector that is usually given important funds. Journalists with the British daily “The Independent’’ believe that a Romanian should not hold this position because the financial stake is huge and because he comes from a country where corruption is still a problem. The future commissioners will be heard by the European Parliament’s commissions in January 2010 and then MEPs will vote on the structure of the new European Commission.
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